Word: cavortings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hape Wot he leeves in de trizz; Whan he nidds a gless meelfc He'll a cuccanot squizze!!'" All Milt Gross's humor is like this. There is no satire, no attempt at subtlety, beyond the infinite subtlety of the extraordinary dialect in which his characters cavort. They-Mr. & Mrs. Feitlebaum, Looy, Isidore, Nize Baby, Mrs. Noftolis-are continuously excited. At home, at the theatre, at the "sisshore," they jabber at one another in a wild jargon, which appears at first glance totally incomprehensible; at second and ensuing glances, astonishingly familiar and funny. Author Gross, frizz-headed...
...favorably inclined toward rubber projects" (TIME, Aug. 16). Gentlemen glance at a Mr. Kellogg headline. ". . . The Spokesman for the Secretary of State can make no comment upon the Mexican situation." There must even be a Spokesman to refuse to comment. Enraged beyond being gentlemen, readers turn to pages where cavort persons who do not hold office. Here, for instance, is a despatch announcing the year-old secret marriage of John Hayes Hammond Jr.: "When confronted, the Spokesman for the Hammond family reluctantly confessed to the match...
...passing tourist were observing the fauna about the farmstead of Dr. W. E. Hastings near Mt. Vernon, Ind., he would be aghast. On that pleasant heath graze, plow, cavort, eight zebroids, heavily boned and muscled as their percheron dams, fractious and dainty-footed as their wild zebra sire...
Died. John Tiller, 71, famed English coach of numberless dancing units of "Tiller girls," who cavort upon the revue stages of the U. S. and Europe; in New York, of asthma. Mr. Tiller revolutionized chorus dancing; established numerous dancing schools, from which 25,000 girls have graduated; was the author of an English law protecting dancing children from exploitation; supplied "Tiller Girls" to the Follies Bergère, the Ziegfeld Follies...
Shubert.-"Daffy Dill". Frank Tinney continues to cavort...